The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-23

"Oh, yes: that will be just lovely
name for her," cried Bessie, delighted to
have the matter settled 30 easily. And
so the dolly was named Angelique Rose
bloom.
But, alas! before the day was over,
sad accident happened, which changed
the lovely Angelique's rosebloom COM
| plexion; and it was thought best by all
the family to change her name also, SO as
| not be reminded Of what she once was.
will tell You how it was. Bessie's
mamma was preserving peaches, and the
delicious odor that stole forth from the
kitchen brought Bessie and Angelique
down from the nursery to look on with
eager delight while the sweet process
was going on. Large porcelain kettles,
filed with the juicy fruit, were on the
stove; and rows of glass jars stood upon
the table ready to receive the delicately
tinted peaches, when they should be
cooked sufficiently, and cooled.
Bessie always enjoyed preserving days,
but peaches were the best of all. They
smelled 80 nice, it was almost the same
as tasting them in your mouth. She got
her little rocking chair, and placed her.
self where she could see everything that
was done, and talked away to Angelique
as fast as her tongue could chatter, ex-
planning all that her mamma did, just as
kh. 1o1
One kettleful of peaches being done,
the cook lifted it off the stove, and stood
it upon an iron standard at one end Of
the table.
"Don't go near it, Bessie" said Mrs.
Greene, as the little girl came forward
to take good look at the simmering
fruit. just then she was called upstairs
to see some one; and knock at the back
door which proved to be the from the
butcher, took the cook out Of the kitch.
en- for few moments, leaving Bessie and
Apgelique alone with the peaches.
"It's too bad, you dear child, that you
shouldn't get peep at them, they do
smell so lovely. I will get a chair and
climb up, and then we can look right
down into the kettle"
Another instant,-the chair being
little unsteady, Bessie lost her balance,
and fell forward, plunging Angelique and
the hand and arm that held her into the
kettle of hot peaches. Her screams
brought the cook and mamma flying
back; and what sight met their eyesl
There was little Bessie standing up in
the chair, holding on to her burned hand
and wrist, and poor Angelique standing
on her head, with only her feet sticking
out, fast buried in the peaches.
It was only the work of few moments
before little girl with her burns all
done up in cotton and sweet oil stood
beside her mother, Watching through her
tears her darling Angelique, as she was
being scraped and washed after her
sweet, sticky bath. Mamma had not the
heart to scold her for not minding, and
thought she had been punished enough.
1t certainly WAS very penitent, pitiful
little face that looked on as bravely as it
could, while Angelique's lovely rose COM
plexion faded and faded to lily white,
with only a pale, pinkish hue in the
cheeks, aud on the lips, and the rich
golden hair became light straw color.
But at night when papa came home
and had heard the whole story, he took
Bessie in his lap, and looking thought
fully at Angelique, robed in her blue
cashmere wrapper, said
swell, I think now, my little one, we
had better call her Angelique Peachblos-
som, as her complexion is more like that
now than it is like the bloom of roses
Peach blossoms are very delicate and
exquisite. Then, too, it will be very ap-
propriate, as Angelique fell into preserv-
ed peaches to obtain this lovely and deli
cate color, which is just as pretty, if not
prettier, than the rosy hue she had be-
| fore her fall"
The little arm round his neck tighten
ed it's hold; and there was little smoth-
cred sob, then two grateful blue eyes
| looked into his.
"You're just lovely, papa, to think of
| it,"
Aod thus it was that Angelique Rose
bloom became Angelique Peachblossom;
and Bessie only loved her the more for
her delicate look, though for long time
afterward her face would become very
grave if any one CHANGED to mention
anything that happened on her sixth
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